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Authors:Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger ParshallTitle:
Taming the unknown. A history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century
Additional book information:
Princeton University Press,
Princeton and Oxford,
2014,
xvi+485 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-691-14905-9,
US $49.50